A Preparation to the Psalter . s are written inVerfe, are more difficult then moft other Writings:And becaufe alfo I am not a little defirous that eueryman fhould come to fome reafonable degree of vnder-(tandingthefe holy and great myfteries;I haue here,according to my power, gathered out of theFathers,and other Aunci-ent teachers in the Church, fome fuch Rules as might be helpfull tothatpurpofe. Neuerthelerfe,I doe not therein vndertake to fet downeall things that arc to be knowne and obferued by the Reader ; nor tomake an exa&Treatife, that (hall giue direction for all men how towadefafely t
A Preparation to the Psalter . s are written inVerfe, are more difficult then moft other Writings:And becaufe alfo I am not a little defirous that eueryman fhould come to fome reafonable degree of vnder-(tandingthefe holy and great myfteries;I haue here,according to my power, gathered out of theFathers,and other Aunci-ent teachers in the Church, fome fuch Rules as might be helpfull tothatpurpofe. Neuerthelerfe,I doe not therein vndertake to fet downeall things that arc to be knowne and obferued by the Reader ; nor tomake an exa&Treatife, that (hall giue direction for all men how towadefafely through the deepeft Fords :But leauing that as a taskera-ther to be vndergone by the Fathers themfelues; I doe onely intend tofet downe fome fuch eafie Notes, as both the ordinary fort of menmay be capable of, and ought alfo of neceffitie to know in the readingofthisBooke, if eucr they will come to the vnderftanBing thereof orprofit thereby. Firft, we rauft be inftru&ed in the grounds and principles ofThcoto- 1 3 g*>. fcfal. 19 I. Inftrufiions otRules to beobferued inthe reading ofthe Pjalmes. ThcfiritObf. 90 A Preparation to the Pfalter. Chap. 12. With what o-pinion of thePfalmes weought to cometo read them. II. The fecondObferuation. The myftericof the Trmltie,and how theknowledgethereofhel-pethtovnder-ftandthePfalmes. trie, fo farre as to know,what we arc ; by whom we are; and whereforewe were created : and fo much alfo of the Chriftian Religion, as mayat leaft giue vs to vnderftand, what need we had of Chrift; what be-nefits we haue rcceiued by him; and how the knowledge of him hathbeene deriued vnto vs by the promifes made to the Patriarchs ; theProphecies reuealed to the Prophets ;and the Writings left vuto vs bythe Apftles and Ettangcltfls. And this we muft not onely know ; buttherewith beleeuc, that all the Bookes of holy Scripture, receiued inthe Church as Canonicall( the Pfalmet, as well as the reft) were thetruth of God, infpired by the holy Spirit, without falfe-h
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